Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.

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"My guess, given the enthusiasm for Twitter so far, is that people are going to do really cool things, " Scott Klemmer, co-director of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford University, told Wired, a CNN content partner.

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My own work in Human-Computer Interaction takes place alongside hundreds of innovative young women under 30.

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Realizing he had bigger ambitions, he enrolled in a university to study human-computer interaction with the intention of becoming a researcher.

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Released less than two years ago, it may not have quite redefined video games, but it has arguably been one of the biggest boons to human-computer interaction research in decades.

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Yet the idea is largely based on anecdotes, and researchers such as Karl MacDorman, associate professor of human-computer interaction at Indiana University, are working on experiments to hone in on possible explanations.

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The interactive feature has provided more than just novel entertainment, though: the MIT Media Lab scientists behind the demonstration have used it to collect an enormous trove of facial expression data that will contribute to research on human-computer interaction.

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To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.

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